Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Vegas 2

Game Summary

Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Vegas 2 will push the franchise to new heights by adding new gameplay features and even more stunning visuals. Players will encounter an intense solo campaign that uses new tactical possibilities in various locations around Sin City. As expected with one of the pioneer franchises for online multiplayer Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Vegas 2 will also break new ground in both co-op and adversarial modes, while providing unprecedented interaction between the solo and multiplayer modes.

"Greatest Hits". Gets you all giddy, doesn't it? It's like consumers know two things... the game sold well initially and now it's cheap.
Well, Sony added 10 titles to the Greatest Hits roster for the PSP. Solid. They'll retail for the standard $19.99. They'll be joining the likes of Daxter, Ratchet and Clank: Size Matters, Killzone: Liberation, Star Wars Battlefront II and Wipeout Pure.
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Here's a nice little rumor to get you through your Wednesday morning routine of surfing game blogs and drinking coffee - Ubisoft is working on 2 new installments of their popular Tom Clancy shooting franchises, Rainbow Six and Ghost Recon.
CVG broke the story this morning and while details are pretty slim, their source did say that there's a chance that we could be seeing both by Christmas 2009. No word on if they will be sequels to the current Rainbow Six Vegas or Ghost Recon: Advanced Warfighter.
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Word from Major Nelson is that, in its first week out, Grand Theft Auto IV has nabbed the top spot as the most active Xbox Live title on the network, toppling longtime placeholder Call of Duty 4, which has been jockeying with Halo 3 for position for some time now.
Xbox 360 Top Live Titles (based on UU's)
GTA IV
Call of Duty 4
Halo 3
Guitar Hero III
Gears of War
Rock Band
Tom Clancy's Rainbow SixÂ® Vegas 2
Iron Man Demo
FIFA 08
Forza Motorsport 2
Will GTA IV continue to dominate, or will it now have to fend off a two-front assault by the rivals in second and third place? Read More

You just can't keep a good muscle-bound, armor-clad, vulgarity-spewing, chainsaw-wielding soldier of the future down. After months of laying low in the wake of major Xbox Live releases like Halo 3, Call of Duty 4 and Rainbow Six Vegas, Gears of War has chainsawed its way through the competition and back into the top five most-played Xbox Live titles.
The title's re-emergence no doubt has something to do with the building hype for Gears of War 2, which was announced back at GDC with a stylish trailer and is now set to be unveiled to the world in a few short weeks. The size and force of the fanbase's reaction to the news certainly bodes well for Epic, its proof positive that there is a sizable contingent of gamers that are definitely excited for the game and, more importantly, that are willing to put Halo 3 or Call of Duty 4 aside to play Epic's brand of visceral, third-person action. Hell, if the mere thought of a new Gears of War is powerful enough to entice that many gamers to pick up a two year old game, imagine what the reaction to the real deal will be this November.
As for that top spot we eluded to earlier, its probably no surprise to anyone that Call of Duty 4 retained the title this week, having just made history with the fastest-selling DLC package in the history of Xbox Live. Halo 3, to its credit, refuses to die and is still nipping at the heels of Infinity Ward's best.
In other news, the Sun rose this morning, water is wet and often blue, and Halo 2 is still the most played Xbox game.
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With the DualShock 3 finally hitting North American shelves next week, Sony has announced via MTV Multiplayer that it will be discontinuing the SIXAXIS controller. A company spokesperson told the blog that the old PS3 controller will be long gone by this summer.
Sony has also released a list of all PlayStation 3 software that will support rumble when using the DualShock 3, as seen after the jump.
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Ubisoft announced today that its recently released sequel, Rainbow Six Vegas 2, has sold through two million copies. The company noted that the sales numbers are "better than expected." Additionally, Ubi says that games like Assassin's Creed and its Games For Everyone brand "continue to outperform."
As a result of better-than-expected sales for Vegas 2, the French publisher increased its projected Net fiscal guidance for the 2007-2008 year. Originally projected to be $1.3 billion, the company has increased that amount to $1.54 billion.
"As expected, 2008 is off to be a record year for the videogame market and our games have performed remarkably well in this context. Assassin's Creed and our Games For Everyone brands continued their strong performance and Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Vegas 2 had a better than expected start. One year after the great success of the first title, the second iteration, which provides another unique multi-player experience in the much enjoyed Tom Clancy environment, is ranked among the top games on Xbox360 and PlayStation 3 in almost every country," said Yves Guillemot, the president and CEO of Ubisoft.
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